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Joana Carneiro, Dália Loureiro, Marta Cabral and Dídia Covas
This paper presents and demonstrates a novel scenario-building methodology that integrates contextual and future time uncertainty into the performance assessment of water distribution networks (WDNs). A three-step approach is proposed: (i) System context...
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Georgios Chantzis, Effrosyni Giama and Agis M. Papadopoulos
The EU energy and climate policy has set quantitative goals for decarbonization based on the energy efficiency and the evolution of energy systems. The utilization of demand side flexibility can help towards this direction and achieve the target of highe...
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Fan Shi and Wenzhong Shi
In the face of persistent challenges posed by urbanization and climate change, the contemporary era has witnessed a growing urgency for urban intelligence and sustainable development. Consequently, a plethora of smart city schedules and policies have eme...
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Tingting Wu, Bisong Hu, Jin Luo and Shuhua Qi
The novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) pandemic has caused enormous impacts around the world. Characterizing the risk dynamics for urgent epidemics such as COVID-19 is of great benefit to epidemic control and emergency management. This article presen...
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Nicholas Horne, Pál Schmitt, Ross Culloch, Ben Wilson, Jonathan D. R. Houghton, Andrew Dale and Louise Kregting
Tidal stream energy is a predictable renewable energy source; however, environmental consent of developments remains a key barrier to the expansion of this industry. Uncertainty around collision risk, i.e., the risk of animals colliding with a tidal devi...
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Usman Asad, Shummaila Rasheed, Waqas Akbar Lughmani, Tayyaba Kazim, Azfar Khalid and Jürgen Pannek
Exponentially growing technologies such as intelligent robots in the context of Industry 4.0 are radically changing traditional manufacturing to intelligent manufacturing with increased productivity and flexibility. Workspaces are being transformed into ...
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Ahmed Oussous, Ismail Menyani, Mehdi Srifi, Ayoub Ait Lahcen, Smail Kheraz and Fatima-Zahra Benjelloun
The education sector has never been so shaken up as much as this past year. COVID-19 has imposed new rules. Several countries were forced to switch overnight from a traditional educational model to a full eLearning one. Like most other countries, the Mor...
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Idrees Alsolbi, Renu Agarwal, Bhuvan Unhelkar, Tareq Al-Jabri, Mahendra Samarawickrama, Siamak Tafavogh and Mukesh Prasad
Analysing and understanding donor behaviour in nonprofit organisations (NPOs) is challenging due to the lack of human and technical resources. Machine learning (ML) techniques can analyse and understand donor behaviour at a certain level; however, it rem...
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Yun Sun , Qiuwei Yang and Xi Peng
Vibration-based damage assessment technology is a hot topic in aerospace engineering, civil engineering, and mechanical engineering. In this paper, a damage assessment approach using multiple-stage dynamic flexibility analysis is proposed for structural ...
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Jie Huang, Jingmin Zhou, Song Gao and Xiao Liu
Housing renovations have become an important part of the construction of living environments in China, and improving residential flexibility is an important way to facilitate renovations. This study focused on the adjustments of interior space and living...
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